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With There's No Business Like Show Business , God Bless America , Let's Face the Music and Dance (my favorite) and scores of ot...

Just rediscovered this boffo appreciative profile of Henry Morgan by Kliph Nesteroff at WFMU. Morgan is hardly mentioned nowadays but is,...

Corporate Director has to be the best job. Get paid gobs of money and have few tasks. Showing up at infrequent meetings is suggested but no...

" There once reappeared in the village of East Dennis on Cape Cod, a sea captain whose ship, which sailed from that part of the New Eng...

The new series of The Thick of It kicked off with the mainspring of conflict beginning to wind tightly. There's a new minister in t...

Turner Classic Movies aired Woody Allen's " Everything you always wanted to know about Sex (But Were Afraid To Ask) " last nig...

~~~~~ THE WILL From the incredible Kirby's Museum , a sort of curiosity shop and freak show in book form published at London House Yar...

John Cleese talking recently about how people who are captivated by images over words become moviemakers ... and make movies the way you...

From LL Cool Bean, a commenter at The Washington Monthly What's probably going to happen is that 59 Democrats will vote for cloture but ...

There are about 31,000 verses in the Bible. It really says something about this fellow that he chose this one from Leviticus to inscribe p...

There's a MMO (Massively Multiplayer Online game) in China called Happy Farms that is alleged to be, as those panicked by such things ...

See, it's not rectangular. Students of US geography will know where I've been when I relate that I was first in a Commonwealth and ...

I'll be traveling for a few days. I may update here but even less assiduously than usual. A few oddities stuck near to where my craw ...

I finally got around to watching Zulu (1964) this weekend thanks to a timely airing on TCM as I lay dying. It was more effective than it s...

When did Curb Your Enthusiasm become so mirthless and leaden? The characters have always been unpleasant, which isn't in itself a pro...

This is not H1N1. Not even a particularly gripping seasonal grippe. Actually just a cold that began in my nares and then annexed my sinuses...

60. INT CAR As Tom sits into the back, next to Bluepoint. Frankie slides in after him. Bluepoint How'd you get t...

The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, which summarizes lives from two millennia of British history, is five years old . The writing ...

I find it amusing, as was obviously intended, that there's a cookbook called Cuisines of the Axis of Evil and Other Irritating States ....

It's a hoary game pulling out twas ever thus quotes from the past. But I was surprised to see this from as early as 1949: Yet out of th...